Wednesday. August 21. 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Union Provides Various Services, Facilities
By PAT NANCE
Kansan Staff Reporter
An estimated 10,000 to 12,000 people use the Kansas Union daily, according to Frank B. Hunt.
"The Kansas Union is the center for college life," Burge said recently. "It's an organization, a building and a program. It provides its services, conveniences and programs so that the members of the campus can get to know their daily life on the campus can get to know and understand one another on an informal basis outside the classroom."
The idea of a student union at KU was first, conceived in 1919 when Chancellor Strong organizes a committee to help strong men and women who died in World War I.
1923 a bill was passed in the Kansas Legislature permitting the erection of the union building. Students, alumni and other students raised the money for its construction.
Designed by Irving K. Pond, the original five-story structure was only 80 by 135 feet. It was completed in 1927 and is now barely distinguishable from the later additions.
A $2 million addition, finished in 1953, doubled the size of the Union building by widening and south wings. The Board of Regents, a governing body for another addition in March 1957. This $1.25 million, six-story addition extended the building to 13th Street. It was opened in Sept. 1960.
In 1965, an addition of student offices and increased bookstore space was completed. The tunnel extending from the Union to X-zone parking lot was built in 1968.
"ON FOOTBALL DAYS, you'll have as many as 12,000 to 15,000 people moving through that tunnel." Burge said. "It is as convenient as it is architecturally possible."
Another addition was completed on the northwest corner in 1970, providing space for meeting rooms, Woodruff Auditorium, reception offices, and the Oread Book Store.
During that period of student unrest, Burge said, he received a series of anonymous warnings. For a few years, his son and daughter were almost a year to restore the damaged area.
A major fire, allegedly set by an arsonist, seriously damaged the middle one-third of the building on April 20, 1970. Damage extended from the roof, down six stories through the ballroom to the sub-subbasement.
TODAY THE COMPLEXITY of the Union bank can greatly confuse the student unfamiliar with the details. We are aware of the many services, facilities and finely decorated rooms available for their
"We've given much attention through the years to correct interior decorating in those buildings," she said.
On the north side of the first floor main lounge are the administration offices, the Forum room with seating for 200, Alumni Association offices, and the Governor's room. The music and browsing rooms are located in the back area to study or leaf through old yearbooks.
A student may watch television in the Traditions Room at the west end of the main lounge or view art exhibitions in the gallery on the south side, next to the SUA offices.
The second floor ballroom may be combined with the patrons. Big Light and Flair lighting.
the north wing is Woodruff Auditorium, which has seating for $38. On the east side the second wing is also available.
The third floor contains the historically decorated Centennial, English, Curry, Kinsner, Pine and Kansas rooms. A terrace on the southwest contains an extensive view of the campus and city.
THE BASEMENT houses the Oread Book Store on the north, the cafeteria, the Bayer City Soup and Sandwich Bar, and the student organization offices on the south.
The sub-basement houses the Prairie Room. Hawk's new Room restaurant, the main bookstore.
In the sub-basement on the northwest side of the building, are the Jay Bowl and tunnel.
We're happy to take people around them the building, said Leta Eurmann, who works at the
She said that the Union rents out rooms to outside groups to help keep student fees down and because it brings new people and special conferences to the University.
Any student can reserve a room in the Union free of charge on a "first-come, first-
served basis), she said. Organized groups meeting on a regular basis may reserve base fees for the group.
"We try to fit the room to the group," she said.
A student may obtain information about the Union building at the information counter on the east side of the first floor and that location also maintains a lost and found collection.
The counter sells candy, cigarettes, magazines and similar articles, cashes checks up to $25 and provides newspapers for students to read in the lounge.
The Union concessions department operates vending machines around the campus, and students can purchase Murphy Hall and Summerfield Hall, and sells concessions at athletic events. Food services include cafeteria meals.
Bowling, pool, pinball, foosball and air hockey are available in the Jaw Bowl.
For travel information, students may visit the travel service operated byMAPupintour next to the information desk. According to Michael Johnson, supervisor, the service performs all the functions of a regular travel agency.
The Oreac Book Store stocks about 18,000 titles including general trade books, reference books, both in cloth and paperback, according to Bill Getz. manager
"Our policy is to get the least expensive edition possible," he said. "We can special order books for people without a service charge."
The total operating budget for the Union in 1974-75 is approximately $3.5 million—almost twice as much as the cost of constructing the original building. About $200 million more will the rest will come from sales and from revenues from rentals and services, Burge said.
Profs Stress Engineering's Value Say Technology Needed to Improve Living Standards
BY CATHY SCHMIDTBERGER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Prof. Vincent Muirhead and a Student Check Plane in Wind Tunnel
The role of engineers in improving living standards for people all over the world has never been as significant as today, several years ago. The School of Engineering said recently.
"A few years ago there was a reaction against technology and nobody wanted to have any idea to do with it," said Nicholas Bates, who taught the class "Technology was blamed for the situation the world was in, but now people are unable to realize that it will solve a lot of problems."
George FORMAN, professor of mechanical engineering, said people needed to be asked whether they wanted to go back and live the way their forefathers did.
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBRIE GUMP
“Do they want to spend a couple of hours getting somewhere or two months, like their grandparents’ adiors?” Ferman said. “I’d advise them to replace old time morals and ethics.”
JOHN RUPF, associate professor of electrical engineering, said engineering was the cornerstone of technological civilization. He said he felt that not all problems, however, could be dealt with through technology.
"The population problem doesn't have a technological solution," he said. "In this case the solution must be political or moral."
"THEERE ARE about as many research projects as there are students," he said. "Any new knowledge is applicable to something and it keeps you mentally alert."
"There is a constant battle between the needs of today and the needs of the future," Howard Smith, associate dean of engineering said. "One dollar will buy a leaf of bread and feed a few people today, but there is no need for research will help millions tomorrow."
The five departments of KU's School of Engineering—mechanical, aeronautic, civil, biomedical, and technical—besides training students to be successful engineers, are greatly concerned
"Mechanical engineers design and build just about everything you think about," Forman said. "Our department is involved in building new and better materials."
Aerodynamics and stability, propulsion and structures and materials are some of the more technical concerns of the aerospace engineer.
The department of aerospace engineering is concerned with all aspects of flight, and much of its research deals with improving the efficiency, safety, and comfort of airplanes, said David Kohlman, professor of aerospace engineering.
"There are many things to take into consideration when designing a plane," he said.
strong enough to withhold flight but at the same time it must be lightweight."
The department also studies the motions and destructive patterns of tornados and high winds.
Inside the department's wind tunnel, winds up to 200 miles an hour can be produced. The effect of these winds on houses, buildings, and especially flight vehicles are studied, Kohman said. Small turbines can be created in one of the laboratories.
Not long ago, aerospace engineering suffered a setback. Two of the reasons were the cutoff of the SST program and the end of an operating life. There has been a complete change, he said.
"Light aircrafts are becoming more popular and even the fuel crisis has stimulated sales and research," Kohlman said.
THE FUEL CRISIS has also stimulated research for petroleum engineers.
Petroleum engineers are working on better ways to get more oil out of old sites, find new sites, and transfer oil from one place to another more economically.
"Kansas has a lot of oil but most reserves have about 50 per cent of the oil left in the porous rock," Paul Wilhelm, associate矿业工程师 and petroleum engineering, said.
Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering said a major concern of the chemical engineer was to control pollution.
"A high percentage of our graduates is involved with pollution control in industry, in conjunction with chemical companies," he said.
Research is being done to discover ways to recycle waste because companies are able to
Civil engineers are employed in government, private practice and in industry and are responsible for the development of such buildings, airports and reservoirs.
The man on the street image of electrical engineering used to be Niagara Falls came with great powers of power but the field of electrical engineering involves much more.
TYPICAL AREAS in which an electrical engineer might work include computers, electronic circuits, integrated circuits, lasers, antennas, electrical power distribution and distribution, space communication and biological measuring instruments.
Anyone can go on a tour of the School of Engineering to see the facilities, each
About 50 people, representing 250 companies and agencies come to KU each year to participate in the annual Food Bank meeting.
In every field of engineering, job opportunities are tremendous and pay is good.
department uses for its research, Smith said.
"People other than engineers can probably understand what they are doing in the school," he said.
"There is nothing mysterious about engineering. I would like to destroy the myth that engineering is so complicated nobody can understand it."
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